This is made of plants. Why do we call it “meat”?

Credit: ACS.

Beyond “burgers.” Impossible “meat.”

A huge meatball (supposedly) made from wooly mammoth.

Chemistry is changing how we think about meat, and as technology advances, things are only going to get more confusing…

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